Cordylodus


Cordylodus is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family of Cordylodontidae.

Use in stratigraphy

It is suggested that Cordylodus andresi can be a marker of the Cambrian Stage 10.

Distribution

Fossils of Cordylodus have been found in Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden, and the United States, in the states of Alaska, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Vermont and Wyoming.
C. horridus has been recovered from the Blakely Sandstone and C. angulatus from the Collier Shale, Ordovician geologic formations in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma.